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F-35As In Flight
Aviation

You can’t replace the F-35 with an F-18 any more than you can replace an aircraft carrier with a cruise ship

An F-18 cannot do everything an F-35 can do, unless stealth doesn't matter.

Don’t hate on deep-sea critters. They’ve got to be weird to survive.
Fish

Don’t hate on deep-sea critters. They’ve got to be weird to survive.

You'd look pretty ugly too if you lived at the bottom of the sea

Egyptian Fruit Bats
Bats

Now we know what an angry, hungry bat sounds like

Scientists decoded some inter-bat communication

The hibernation science in ‘Passengers’ is not far from reality
Mars

The hibernation science in ‘Passengers’ is not far from reality

Suspended animation may help us survive interplanetary travel, but it won't keep us alive for 120 years

We’ve been grinding up plants to eat for over 10,000 years
Archaeology

We’ve been grinding up plants to eat for over 10,000 years

Early humans loved them some leaves

The most surprising places where it (sometimes) snows
Weather

The most surprising places where it (sometimes) snows

And the pics to prove it

Solar oven
Projects

How to build a DIY solar oven

You can cook a meal even if all you have is the sun

Cheetah
Animals

#Bestspots is the adorable Twitter feud we need to get through 2016

Scientists are throwing down the spotted gauntlet

skyline of shenzhen, china
Technology

The Best Burger in Shenzhen

The city is known for its world-building factories. Now it's cultivating something else entirely: a global community with an experimental spirit.

rat
Animals

Tickle experiments reveal what a happy rat looks like

It's all in the ears

The adorable ‘Casper’ octopod could be killed off by deep-sea mining
Animals

The adorable ‘Casper’ octopod could be killed off by deep-sea mining

Scientists only recently discovered the precious critter

Airbus Transpose Concept
Technology

New Airbus concept makes airliner interiors quickly customizable

A window to a windowless future.

How did music get its groove? Scientists made rhythm evolve in a lab to find out.
Science

How did music get its groove? Scientists made rhythm evolve in a lab to find out.

Mistakes help rhythm to emerge from randomness

Pregnancy actually re-wires your brain
Health

Pregnancy actually re-wires your brain

The structure changes could help with mom-baby bonding

ALPHA's antimatter trap
Particle Physics

Antimatter just got a little bit less mysterious

Scientists hit a new milestone for antihydrogen

NASA Eagleworks EmDrive
Military

EmDrive: China claims success with this ‘reactionless’ engine for space travel

NASA also has high hopes for the theoretical engine

Strange giant diamonds give hints to the inner Earth’s composition
Environment

Strange giant diamonds give hints to the inner Earth’s composition

It’s a song of iron and ‘ice’.

How ‘Rogue One’ resurrected the Death Star
Science Fiction

How ‘Rogue One’ resurrected the Death Star

The movie's visual effects experts explain how the most important character was created.

ISIS mortar production facility, Gogjali
Weapons

Report from ISIS factory of war reveals a vast, standardized arsenal

It takes a state to arm an insurgency

Scientists watch an undersea volcano shake, rattle, and inflate
Environment

Scientists watch an undersea volcano shake, rattle, and inflate

Axial Seamount could help us answer basic questions about how volcanoes work